France, Aug. 25 -- Along with United States astronaut Anil Menon, Adenot will continue work on replacing the ISS's faulty Space-to-Ground Antenna (SGANT), which they were unable to complete after spending more than six hours working on it last week.

"What a day," Adenot said when she returned to the ISS last Tuesday. "My deepest gratitude goes to everyone who made this possible, pioneers who came before us, but also the incredible teams working behind the scenes today."

Flight engineer Jack Hathaway and station commander Jessica Meir remained inside the ISS while Adenot and Menon successfully removed the defective SGANT - a critical communications system used to transmit data and enable high-speed communications with Mission Control in ...